On two occasions, I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.—CHARLES BABBAGE

This site presents annotated genealogies of the emigrant progenitors who founded the first Brooks families of New England. Of the men in the table below, 13 came from old England by 1660 — the effective end of the "Great Migration" era — and the remaining two before 1700. With the exception of those noted in theRelatedcolumn below, no wider or prior relationships between them are known.An alpha-numeric ID suffix (i.e., Thomas/2c, Daniel/3s) denotes the generation of descent(where /1 is always the emigrant progenitor in New England) and the line of descent of each founder.Dual letters (such as /aw) indicate that two lines have intermarried.Data for the 15 individuals below is carried at a minimum through the 4th generation in New England.(Several lines are carried beyond that point — see the FAQ for specifics.)

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